week ahead

TODAYA classical single is being released online to aid the earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti. Artists featured include Aled Jones, Julian Lloyd Webber and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mothering Sunday is celebrated in the UK.

Tory leader David Cameron is interviewed by Sir Trevor McDonald on ITV.

Pope Benedict XVI is to visit a Lutheran church in Rome for an ecumenical service.

MONDAY

The University of Glasgow will host a conference on the future of Afghanistan, with the former commander of British forces in Helmand, Major General Andrew Mackay.

A 26-year-old from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, will appear in court after making a hoax bomb threat on social networking site Twitter when his plane was delayed.

The trout fishing season opens in Scotland.

TUESDAY

First Minister Alex Salmond will announce the winners of a competition to develop tidal and wave energy in Edinburgh.

Kirsty Gallacher, above, launches the Scottish leg of the National Lottery's Britain Has Balls Tour in St Enoch Square, Glasgow.

World Social Work Day will be marked with a range of events.

The controversial Miss University beauty parade takes place in London.

WEDNESDAY

Ireland – and the world – will mark St Patrick's Day.

A man is due to appear in court in Glasgow charged with murdering his wife. The pair had married twice.

Some plans for the Edinburgh Festival will be outlined by its director Jonathan Mills and culture minister Fiona Hyslop.

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary has invited EasyJet's Stelios Haji-Ioannou to join him in London's Trafalgar Square for a bout of sumo wrestling.

A Metropolitan Police officer will appear in court on 15 charges of sexually abusing young girls.

THURSDAY

The traditional Ladies' Day will be held at the Cheltenham horse racing festival.

Israel's ruling party, Likud, will debate a freeze on new settlements in the West Bank.

Aviators will launch an attempt to beat the world record for flying around the world. The team, who will start from Geneva in Switzerland, will use a 30-year-old jet.

FRIDAY

First Minister Alex Salmond and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson will address the annual conference of the Federation of Small Businesses in Aberdeen.

Gay and Lesbian evangelicals hold a conference in Cumbria.

SATURDAY

The Scottish National Party will hold a spring pre-election conference in Aviemore.

Charity Action for Children Scotland will hold its Woman of Influence awards

Scotland play away to Ireland in the last of this year's Six Nations ties.